...Shuxuan Zhou Ornamentalism . By Anne Anlin Cheng . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xiv, 204 pp. ISBN: 9780190604615 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 In Ornamentalism , Anne Anlin Cheng explores non-European, modern Western...

...Leela Row Dayal Textiles and Ornaments of India: A Selection of Designs . Ed. Monroe Wheeler . Texts by Pupul Jayakar and John Irwin. New York : Museum of Modern Art , 1956 . 96 . 110 Plates (16 in color), Bibliography. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957...

...A. Bharati SGAM.PO.PA.—The Jewel Ornament of Liberation . By Herbert V. Guenther , London : Rider & Co. , 1959 . xiv, 333 . 42s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 106 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES numerous Hindi primers published in India during the last...

...Winston Kyan Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China . By Martin J. Powers . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2006 . xvi , 434 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The subtitle...

..., ornamentation were divinely real. The things which form the focus of Waghorne's witty exposition are the bodies of the Kallar (warrior) caste kings of Pudukkottai, a little kingdom in the Tamil country which was incorporated into the British Indian empire as a Native State. Her book constitutes a continuous...

... artifacts of modern or recent times in Melanesia and artifacts from the ancient bronze-age art of the Far East. We begin with a type of Melanesian shell ornament, well known to the curators of our ethnographical collections by its pidgin English name of kapkap, which consists of a disk of white shell...

... produced book takes up for study and analysis the representation of the human body in Indian art, both in the sculpture as well as later Indian painting. Emphasis is placed throughout on the sensuously rendered body of the images, the ornaments that bedeck it, the inter-penetration of the sacred...

... out of 639 well-provenienced artifacts from the Ban Chiang sites excavated in 1974–75. By chapter 3, we learn directly about the 639 cleaned and preserved prehistoric metal artifacts found at the Ban Chiang sites. Copper-base metal was used primarily for ornaments, with copper-base tools less common...

... asks how a wealthy but pious woman might make use of richly bejeweled hair ornaments embossed with images of the bodhisattva to acquire religious merit in this life but even more importantly, to ensure her own transformative rebirth in the Pureland in the next. Here again, the ultimate goal...

... in ferocious form bear angry expressions, human-like demon faces, animal heads and ornaments of skulls, snakes and carved human bones as typical attributes. A startling example is Begtse, God of War, measuring about five feet in height and constructed of red lacquered paper mache and wood. His fierce...

... B.C., though the author wrongly places her in the previous millenium). Then she lists, as "the next manifestation of an animal art that appears to be related to the later Scythian," ornaments recovered by Schliemann in the last century among the grave finds at Mycenae. "How the animal-style ornaments...

... after the death of the subject, and were intended to be hung in the family temple, or altar room, at important anniversaries. As they were considered as objects for ritual use and not as ornaments or works of art, they were painted by mere artisans, who had notebooks of conventionalized features, from...

... of Chinese ornament. Thereafter, the fortunes of ceramic design are followed down to the invention of underglaze decor; and the book concludes, with rapidly increasing tempo, in the Ming and Ch'ing periods. Watson believes, with Langer and Loehr (M. Loehr, "The Fate of the Ornament," Archives of Asian Art...

... ceremonial vessels of bronze, stone and pottery, bronze weapons and bridle fittings, stone, jade and bone ornaments. The most unusual item was a musical stone of grey limestone embellished on its face with a conventional design of a tiger. Preserved in perfect condition, it gives out a clear, ringing note...

..., a, Cordmarked pot, Initial period (ht. 9 in b, jar ornamented with pseudo-cord ing, incision, and applique, Middle Period (ht. 11 in c, pot with spout, showing stylized animals in upper panel of body design, Final Period (ht. 5.5 in d, plan and cross-section of housefloor, Middle Period; e, Kamegaoka pottery...

... at all, I would suggest "ethically commendable demeanour" or something of the kind. The Jewel Ornament displays an amazing love for captions and subcaptions, for categorizing, quotation and cross-reference, psychological insight of considerable subtlety, and occasionally at least, exquisite poetical...

... of the several thousand known species of this one family that are of no great ornamental value; the magnificent palms in great variety; 70 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY the strange Rqfflesia, the largest flower known, some species with flowers approximating a meter in diameter; the equally strange gigantic orchid...

... pottery through Han bronzes and lacquers to the revolutionary introduction in the T'ang of organic and figural motifs, which radically altered the character of Chinese ornament. Thereafter, the fortunes of ceramic design are followed down to the invention of underglaze decor; and the book concludes...

... Japanese sculptured ornaments known as o\imono. In many cases, this overenlargement has coarsened what must have been delicate carvings, deadening their appeal. The contrast, however, is not confined to the presentation of examples from the two collections, but also appears in the respective selections...

... were based upon classical Sanskrit alaṅkāraśastra works, which expounded the science of rhetorical ornamentation. Brajbhasha authors explained and illustrated these very same rhetorical devices in the vernacular very well aware of Sanskrit's sacrosanct status. Like the Brajbhasha authors themselves...